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UNLV Student Union

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13-1-2009 8:00 AM

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14-1-2009 6:00 PM

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“Water 2025” is a Department of Interior initiative designed to guide the management of scarce water resources in the American West. As an important Colorado River reservoir, Lake Mead is a fundamental component of Water 2025. For Water 2025 to achieve its goals, comprehensive knowledge is needed of historic and current Lake Mead water quality data. A task agreement between the National Park Service and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas provides for a strategic data mining project to identify research and monitoring projects on Lake Mead that have been conducted in the past, prioritize relevant projects, and ensure data availability by converting the data to an electronic format.

During the first phase of the project a comprehensive literature search was conducted to discover research projects focused on Lake Mead, particularly those focused on the topics of water quality, limnology, contaminants, fisheries, aquatic biota, and riparian/shoreline resources. A relational database was created using Microsoft Access to serve as a repository for descriptive data for Lake Mead research projects. Data is structured to allow multi-field searches for project results with sub-headings such as: research topics, research locations, parameters measured, and date or duration of research. A ranking system allows for prioritization of data mining activities and the capture of electronic data during the project’s second phase. The ultimate goal of this project is to make historic data more available to the managers and researchers working towards meeting the goals of Water 2025.

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Jan 13th, 8:00 AMJan 14th, 6:00 PM

Strategic Data Mining and Database Development for Research Projects at Lake Mead, Nevada-Arizona USA

UNLV Student Union

“Water 2025” is a Department of Interior initiative designed to guide the management of scarce water resources in the American West. As an important Colorado River reservoir, Lake Mead is a fundamental component of Water 2025. For Water 2025 to achieve its goals, comprehensive knowledge is needed of historic and current Lake Mead water quality data. A task agreement between the National Park Service and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas provides for a strategic data mining project to identify research and monitoring projects on Lake Mead that have been conducted in the past, prioritize relevant projects, and ensure data availability by converting the data to an electronic format.

During the first phase of the project a comprehensive literature search was conducted to discover research projects focused on Lake Mead, particularly those focused on the topics of water quality, limnology, contaminants, fisheries, aquatic biota, and riparian/shoreline resources. A relational database was created using Microsoft Access to serve as a repository for descriptive data for Lake Mead research projects. Data is structured to allow multi-field searches for project results with sub-headings such as: research topics, research locations, parameters measured, and date or duration of research. A ranking system allows for prioritization of data mining activities and the capture of electronic data during the project’s second phase. The ultimate goal of this project is to make historic data more available to the managers and researchers working towards meeting the goals of Water 2025.